Hagley Digital Archives

The Hagley Digital Archives provides online access to selected items from the Hagley Library's collection of images, documents, and publications related to the history of business, technology, and society.

Because of its strength and resistance to oils and greases, new conveyor belting made of Mylar polyester film as been adopted by many bakeries. Here the new belting carries freshly cooked doughnuts to powered sugar bin at the General Baking Company plant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Plaques made by joining two thin sheets of Mylar polyester film carry chocolate candies from enrober to cooling tiers at Stephen F. Whitman and Son, Inc. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Plaques are easy to keep clean because of smooth surface.

Electric railway trains and electrically driven conveyor belts are features of the world's largest anthracite breaker at Locust Summit. The mound in the background is an accumulation of non-combustible material from which Reading Anthracite is freed before it is sent out to heat millions of homes in the U. S. and Canada.

Foreman watches plaques made of Mylar polyester film being conveyed upward into multi tired cooler at Stephen F. Whitman and Son, Inc. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mylar is unaffected by temperature changes and offers long service life.

The Coal is shoveled onto a moving belt which carries it upward and dumps it into the mine car which may be seen in the background. The miner in the background is showing how the coal had to be shoveled by hand over the top of the car before the device was installed.

A Reading Anthracite miner tending a mechanical conveyor which carries anthracite for long distances in the workings. The electric wire strung overhead the tense pose of the worker, and the general background give the scene a curious resemblance to a diver at work in a sea cavern.

Paper thin new conveyor belting made of Mylar polyester film provides glossy finish for chocolates at the Goldenberg Candy Company in Philadelphia PA. Shown is end of 128 foot belt which carried candies through cooling tunnel.

The prepared sizes of Reading anthracite are loaded into freight cars without breakage by these devices which are electrically operated and lowered into the cars so that the coal is deposited gently and evenly. Reading anthracite rides on rubber so that dealers and consumers may receive exactly sized shipments of nature's finest fuel.

Mine cars are automatically loaded by motor driven conveyor belts in mines of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. This scene is more than a thousand feet below the earth's surface at Burnside Colliery, near Samokin, Pa.

Lowering conveyors load railways cars with coal after it has been given its preliminary cleaning and sizing. These cars are sent to the central preparation plant a few miles away where the product is finally prepared for marker by the most exacting and efficient methods known to the industry.

Flexible conveyor belts carry newly mined coal for great distances underground. Motor driven apparatus provide many other forms of conveyance. The cables and drums shown in the picture operate a drag line which carries coal down from the face to points where it can be conveniently loaded.